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De sabotage op het treinspoor dinsdag is volgens premier Rob Jetten "ontwrichtend en levensgevaarlijk". Hij zegt nog niet of het terrorisme is of niet. Daarvoor wil hij het politieonderzoek afwachten.

ISTANBUL (ANP/AFP/RTR) - Minstens 150 mensen zijn in Istanbul tijdens een pro-lhbtqi-demonstratie opgepakt door de Turkse politie. De demonstranten hadden zich verzameld voor het gerechtshof in Çağlayan, een wijk in Istanbul. De politie hield ze aan voordat ze een persverklaring konden afleggen.

De betogers droegen een spandoek met de tekst: "lhbtq zijn is geen misdaad".

Twee dagen geleden viel de politie al woningen en bars van lhbtqi'ers binnen. Ook blokkeerde de overheid websites van lhbtqi'ers en waren er invallen in verenigingsgebouwen. De minister van Justitie zei dat deze arrestaties onderdeel zijn van president Recep Tayyip Erdoğans 'Decennium van het gezin'. Dat initiatief zou kinderen en de maatschappelijke orde moeten beschermen.

Maandag uitte de Europese Unie zorgen over de eerdere arrestaties. Desondanks wil de Turkse minister van Justitie ermee doorgaan.

DEN HAAG (ANP) - Aanhangers van Extinction Rebellion hebben dinsdag bij Prinsjesdag een blauwzwart goedje op de ramen van de ingang van het tijdelijke gebouw van de Tweede Kamer in Den Haag gegooid. Volgens de groep ging het om nepolie. De ramen van het Kamergebouw moesten daarom schoongemaakt worden, zag een ANP-verslaggever.

Eerder gooiden activisten van de groep rode verf op de route van de glazen koets voor Prinsjesdag. Dat was volgens de activisten nepbloed. Extinction Rebellion klaagt over miljardensteun van het kabinet voor "grote vervuilers".

Je neemt je voor het heel anders te doen dan je ouders. Geen eindeloze ruzies, geen traditionele rolverdeling en al helemaal niet dat zwijgen tot iemand ontploft. En toch kun je jaren later ineens denken: wacht eens even, dit komt me verdacht bekend voor. Volgens psycholoog en relatietherapeut Minki Gyles is dat niet zo vreemd. Wat je thuis leerde over liefde, conflict en samenleven kan verrassend hardnekkig zijn.

Niet omdat je bewust een kopie van het huwelijk van je ouders probeert te maken. Eerder omdat bekend gedrag nu eenmaal vanzelfsprekender voelt dan onbekend gedrag. Daardoor kunnen vooral deze drie patronen terugkeren.

1. Je maakt ruzie zoals thuis ruzie werd gemaakt

In het ene gezin wordt irritatie meteen uitgesproken, in het andere blijft iedereen vriendelijk totdat de bom barst. Kinderen krijgen zo ongemerkt een soort handleiding mee voor conflicten.

Wie thuis zag dat emoties maanden werden opgespaard en vervolgens tijdens één gigantische ruzie over tafel vlogen, kan later hetzelfde doen. Andersom geldt dat ook: als gevoelens bespreekbaar waren, is de kans groter dat je dat gedrag meeneemt.

Het lastige is dat je eigen manier van reageren daardoor heel normaal kan voelen. Pas wanneer een partner totaal anders met conflicten omgaat, merk je dat jouw ‘normaal’ eigenlijk aangeleerd gedrag is.

2. Je kiest iemand die een vertrouwde dynamiek oproept

We zeggen graag dat tegenpolen elkaar aantrekken, maar vertrouwdheid speelt volgens Gyles eveneens een belangrijke rol.

Ben je bijvoorbeeld gewend geraakt aan een dominante persoon die graag bepaalt wat er gebeurt, dan kan iemand die veel ruimte inneemt vreemd genoeg vertrouwd aanvoelen. Zeker wanneer jij zelf hebt geleerd je gemakkelijk aan te passen.

Zo kunnen twee eigenschappen als puzzelstukjes in elkaar vallen. De een duwt, de ander wijkt. Vervolgens wordt dat patroon met de jaren steeds sterker. Je kiest dus niet noodzakelijk iemand die letterlijk op je vader of moeder lijkt; het kan vooral de onderlinge dynamiek zijn die bekend voorkomt.

3. Je verwart onrust met liefde

Misschien wel het venijnigste patroon: een rustige relatie kan verkeerd voelen wanneer liefde vroeger vooral gepaard ging met spanning.

Wie gewend is aan heftige emoties, ruzie en verzoening kan die intensiteit gaan associëren met passie. Een betrouwbare partner die geen emotionele achtbaan veroorzaakt, lijkt dan ineens saai. Terwijl juist de chaos bekend terrein is.

Dat verklaart mede waarom goede voornemens als ‘ik wil nooit zo’n relatie als mijn ouders’ niet altijd voldoende zijn. Ook termen als daddy issues en mommy issues vindt Gyles daarvoor te simpel: je gezin van herkomst beïnvloedt je, maar bepaalt niet automatisch je toekomst.

Patronen zijn namelijk te veranderen. Zelfonderzoek, gesprekken en eventueel relatietherapie kunnen helpen om zichtbaar te maken welke vaste pasjes een stel steeds opnieuw uitvoert. En daarvoor hoef je volgens Gyles niet te wachten tot de relatie bijna uit elkaar spat. Juist eerder ingrijpen kan voorkomen dat vertrouwd uiteindelijk hetzelfde wordt als vastgeroest.

Bron: Metro

STRAATSBURG (ANP) - Het Europees Parlement doet een tegenvoorstel voor een versoepeling van het emissiehandelssysteem. De Europese Commissie stelde afgelopen voorjaar voor om een bepaald overschot aan emissiehandelsrechten niet meer automatisch te vernietigen, maar in reserve te houden. Een meerderheid van het Europees Parlement gaat niet mee met het opschorten van de automatische vernietiging, maar stemt in met een ander voorstel.

Via het emissiehandelssysteem moeten vervuilende bedrijven betalen voor uitstoot met het opkopen van emissiehandelsrechten. Elk jaar bepaalt Brussel hoeveel van die rechten op de markt komen en houdt het ook 400 miljoen rechten in reserve. Alles boven die 400 miljoen wordt momenteel vernietigd. De Commissie wil daarvanaf om prijsstabiliteit van de emissierechten in de toekomst te kunnen garanderen.

Het parlement stelt voor die vernietiging niet stop te zetten, maar om de drempel te verhogen naar 650 miljoen per 1 februari 2027.

SITTARD (ANP) - Oud-profvoetballer Ahmed Ammi is op 45-jarige leeftijd overleden. Dat meldt Fortuna Sittard, waar hij de afgelopen jaren als hoofdtrainer van het oudste jeugdteam werkzaam was.

"Enige tijd geleden werd Ahmed geconfronteerd met een zware diagnose. Vanaf dat moment vocht hij met enorme moed en vastberadenheid tegen kanker. Helaas heeft hij die strijd niet kunnen winnen", aldus Fortuna Sittard.

Rechtervleugelverdediger Ammi voetbalde in Nederland voor VVV-Venlo, NAC Breda en ADO Den Haag. In 2014 beëindigde hij zijn loopbaan.

A Swiss court has sentenced a 52-year-old Ukrainian ransomware developer to 12 years and nine months in prison for his role in attacks on companies including Stadler Rail. Zurich District Court found that the man developed LockerGoga, MegaCortex, and Nefilim, but was not the mastermind behind the operations. He also received a ten-year ban from Switzerland. The judgment is not final and can be appealed. He had been held in pretrial detention since October 2021 and consistently denied knowing that his software was being used for criminal purposes. He said the source code found at his home in Basel-Landschaft came from his consulting work for an unidentified IT security client. The court rejected that explanation because extortion messages were also found among his data, SWI reported. The ransomware developer was also found guilty of playing a key role in high-profile ransomware attacks, including the one that hit Stadler Rail in 2020 [PDF]. Not to be confused with the more recent attack on the rolling stock manufacturer – that one was claimed by Everest – the earlier breach occurred in May 2020. At the time, Stadler Rail did not use the word "ransomware," but said the attack involved malware, that it "most likely led to a data leak," and that "the offenders tried to extort a large amount of money," threatening to leak the files if the ransom was not paid. As it did following this year's incident, Stadler refused to pay. The 2020 Nefilim ransom demand was reportedly $6 million. The court also found that he played a key role in attacks on HVAC company Meier Tobler and software company Crealogix. In September 2022, Zurich prosecutors reported that a suspect had been arrested in Basel-Landschaft in October 2021 on suspicion of money laundering and data corruption. The statement accused the perpetrators of involvement in attacks on more than 1,800 individuals and institutions across 71 countries, causing estimated losses of several hundred million Swiss francs. The same law enforcement action in 2021 led to the identification of other alleged members of the three ransomware operations, none of whom were named. Volodymyr Tymoshchuk was formally indicted in the US last year and was described by prosecutors as the mastermind of all three ransomware crews. Unlike many others, Tymoshchuk has not yet been arrested, but is on the FBI's most wanted list, with an $11 million bounty placed on the information that could lead to his arrest or conviction, or that of other key leaders. He was allegedly responsible for attacks on at least 250 companies, including the infamous Norsk Hydro attack in 2019. ®

OPINION By luck or happenstance, Anthropic planted a seed in the mind of the public last week: AI in the wrong hands is dangerous and left unchecked poses an existential threat to humanity. With pop culture steeped in references to malignant AI, the mainstream media ate it up. The headlines wrote themselves and the seed took root. But it's not humanity that faces the biggest threat – at least not yet. Rather, it's American model-making giants Anthropic and OpenAI, which, despite hundreds of billions in investment, are years from profitability and entirely dependent on a steady supply of capital. Meanwhile, Chinese open-weight models are improving rapidly to the point where some outperform the big frontier models that sparked the generative AI boom, while using a lot fewer resources. But that threat from Chinese models could turn into an opportunity if Anthropic and OpenAI can convince the public and government to instigate a crackdown in the name of safety. The fearmongering began in June when outside researchers testing Anthropic's then-brand-new Fable 5 model sounded the alarm in a report that cited national security concerns. The Trump administration quickly issued an export control directive suspending access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 to any foreign national inside or outside the US. Anthropic complied by disabling access to both models to "ensure compliance." The shocking discovery the researchers made? According to one private security researcher granted access to the report, the source of the risk was a single successful prompt: "fix this code." OpenAI briefly delayed the public release of GPT-5.6 until Uncle Sam tested and reviewed the release. The block didn't last long, but providing access to and complying with the US government helped sell three claims useful to OpenAI and Anthropic: Their models are more capable than first believed. In the right hands, and only the right hands, it's possible to control the models. The same cannot be said of Chinese frontier models that are openly available for download. Then things escalated. In July, OpenAI revealed AI agents powered by its proprietary models had escaped their sandbox and exploited at least two zero-days in order to compromise Hugging Face's servers. Days later, Anthropic admitted its Claude family of models also escaped a sandbox and launched attacks on three organizations. The breaches were the first raindrops in a flood of AI-powered cybercrimes that have since inspired a satirical new AI benchmark, Felony Bench, which counts the unique instances in which agents compromise or breach a third party. Finally, Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon publicly quit on X last week over concerns that AI "could kill us all by the end of the decade." Anthropic science lead Evan Hubinger backed his former colleague's warning, saying: "Jacob is correct here – we really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans! I personally think it is >10 percent within the next decade." This sequence of events gave Anthropic fearmonger-in-chief Dario Amodei the ammunition he was looking for – proof positive that AI was not only smart but also capable of doing harm if not properly regulated. It makes for a convincing story. These models are smart; they're smart enough to escape containment; they are only going to get smarter; the smarter they get the more dangerous they'll be; open models can't be controlled; closed-weight models are therefore safer. But under even the slightest scrutiny, the argument falls apart. If a tiger escapes its enclosure and kills the antelope in the neighboring pen, your first reaction wouldn't be, "look how smart and dangerous that tiger is." It would be, "who designed the pens that can't do the job?" If an AI agent escapes its sandbox, maybe the model is really smart, or maybe the sandbox wasn't very good to begin with. OpenAI and Anthropic don't really have a leg to stand on here. We've known for decades how to isolate sensitive computing workloads. The US Department of Energy airgaps its most powerful and sensitive supercomputing workloads for a reason. If Anthropic and OpenAI are really the solid corporate citizens they claim to be, they could have built better sandboxes and paid more attention to their tests. The companies should have to explain why their safeguards failed and answer for any resulting harm. As fellow vulture Tom Claburn wrote last week, "AI models don't kill people, people kill people," and those who pull the trigger directly or through their own negligence should be held accountable for the damage done and crimes committed. That would be the rational thing to do, but fear does funny things to people, and Coxon and Hubinger may as well have screamed fire in a crowded theater. Politicians can't ignore the threat of AI any longer – not when their constituents are scared that Skynet isn't the fantasy they thought it was. And what is your local congressperson to do when faced with a threat they don't understand? Shoot first and ask questions later. Having set off a panic, the great AI houses can now press the government to buy more time – or, as Amodei refers to it, "pace the frontier." "Over the last few months, I have become convinced that fully addressing the risks requires even more prudence – not just investing in risk prevention, but pacing the rate of capabilities advancement so that risk prevention has time to keep up. We must slow the pace at which we improve the capabilities of AI models. Progress will still seem fast, and we must make wise use of the time we gain," he wrote in a recent blog post. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and xAI impresario Elon Musk have also signaled their support for slowing things down. But their reasons may not be as altruistic as they appear. In fact, some signs point to the opposite. "Pacing the frontier" would be beneficial to two self-serving ends: resetting investor expectations because anything else could kill us all and buying the time necessary to play the US government against itself. While the American houses stall for time, Chinese AI devs will inevitably seize this opportunity to close the gap. Once they do, the fourth act can begin. Amodei seems to think that the US can extend its lead over China by cutting off access to advanced accelerator tech and cracking down on model distillation. But if history tells us anything, it is that those tactics are more likely to backfire than succeed. Necessity is the mother of invention and past attempts to cut off China from American chips have actually fueled development of more efficient architectures: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash being the most recent example. By pacing the frontier, there's a good chance China will have caught up or even pulled ahead. American labs will have created an AI arms race in which their success becomes a matter of national security and American exceptionalism, not mere economics. In other words, a pair of startups will become too big to fail and therefore deserving of government assistance. Much of Anthropic and OpenAI's apparent plan hinges on Uncle Sam playing ball, which isn't guaranteed. President Donald Trump has so far resisted the idea of regulation because it would risk giving China the time it needed to catch up. On Monday, he released a storm of posts on his social network, Truth Social, calling AI fears a "hoax" and "scam," proclaiming: "I'm right now breaking another Hoax – That AI is going to take over, consume, and destroy the World, and that Robots will be marching into our Cities, and getting rid of us all!" Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, whose company's ability to continue growing depends heavily on enterprises' adoption of open-weight models, seems to think there's more going on here. "What better way to create demand than to create a problem," he said during a Goldman Sachs conference last week. Even former FTC chair Lina Khan has weighed in, arguing that Uncle Sam should be holding AI CEOs accountable for the threats their models pose. "We shouldn't let discussions about new legal regimes distract from the fact that there's no AI exemption from laws already on the books," she said. "Law enforcers already have authority to charge companies and their CEOs for creating and releasing dangerous, unvetted, or defective products." Even if Uncle Sam won't capitulate to their demands for regulation, time is still on American model devs' side and they seem perfectly willing to regulate themselves. The greater the risk of falling behind China, the more likely Uncle Sam will play. If investors lose patience before then, it'd only take a rogue AI agent powered by a Chinese model triggering some catastrophe to get the ball rolling again. ®

Over the past six months (leisurely) and in the past three weeks (intensely), I’ve cleaned out and packed up my entire house where I’ve been living for the past 10 years. I went through every bit and bob of what I owned and either:

• gave it away (fiddle leaf fig, grill, chairs, stuffed animals,¹ blender, rugs)
• sold it (car, coffee table, lamp, iPad)
• put it into storage (art, mementos, chairs)
• took it with me (very little, mostly clothes & computing things)

Parting with my possessions was surprisingly easy. I’d been planning this move for a while now and had time to get used to the idea and say my farewells. And the concept of having a bunch of stuff, 95% of which I never used or thought about or even remembered owning, was really starting to make me itch. So out it went; I felt lighter with each thing that exited the house.

But I wasn’t expecting the spice drawer.

I was working my way through the kitchen when I opened the drawer with all of my spices and baking supplies. A pause. What do I do with these? I picked up a jar of smoked paprika and was suddenly flung back in time to 12 years ago. I remember exactly where I bought that paprika and why.

I’d recently moved into my own apartment after separating from my wife and was still trying to figure out how my new household was going to work. My kids came over a few times a week; what the hell were we going to eat for dinner? I was competent but not confident in the kitchen; Meg is a great cook and I couldn’t match her effort or output. I had to come up with my own meals that a) I could cook, b) the kids would actually eat, and c) were somewhat healthy.

One of the recipes I found was for smoky corn chowder, so I headed to the grocery store on 23rd St. to buy ingredients, including a jar of smoked paprika. The kids loved the corn chowder and it became a favorite of ours — something that they only ate over at Dad’s house.

Over the years, the kids and I amassed a small collection of recipes we loved and often had at my house — caldo verde, lasagne, buttermilk pancakes, taco salad, apple pie, and others — and the spices to cook them: oregano, cinnamon, nutmeg, baking powder, basil, baking soda, Ortega Taco Seasoning Mix 😂. I pulled each spice container out of the drawer and tried to remember what I’d cooked with it, what dishes it was in that we’d eaten together. I opened the tops to sniff some of the spices and was more strongly pulled back into those times when my kids were small and I was worried — no, I was terrified — about not being up to the task of filling their tummies, minds, and souls with the good stuff on my watch.

Man, so much of our time together revolved around food. The spice drawer hit me hard because it was a powerful olfactory reminder not only of the delicious meals we’d shared but also of my insecurity around parenting, how I slowly gained confidence, and how I eventually found freedom & pride in what I was able to offer my kids.

In the end, I had to throw all the spices out — no takers for half-used, decade-old containers of parsley flakes or jars of cumin — but I’ll always remember cleaning out that drawer and all of the memories it stirred up. Proust had his madeleines, but I doubt I’ll ever pass by a jar of smoked paprika in the supermarket or in someone’s spice drawer without feeling all of it all over again.

1. I gave away a bunch of miscellaneous stuffed animals that my kids had accumulated over the years — not the beloved ones — and I was sitting working on my deck when a woman showed up to collect them. “Are you the stuffed animal guy?” she called to me. “Yes,” I said, “and I don’t think I’ve been referred to like that before.” In telling this story to others, she became “the stuffed animal lady”. Everything is relative. ↩

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Syutkin and his wife wrote a weekly cooking column for The Moscow Times until Russia banned it as “undesirable” in July 2024.

Esteban Ocon just missed out on points at the Spanish Grand Prix with an 11th-placed finish.

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De Nederlandse jeugd kan niet meer lezen, D66 heeft daar een plan tegen en dat is een ontzettend slecht plan, ondertussen heeft D66 een premier die het prima vindt om een robot te vragen een invoelend tekstje over Kamp Westerbork te tikken en deze mevrouw komt nu naar de Tweede Kamer met een paar bladzijden op haar hoofd en een boek aan haar arm. We zouden erbij willen verzinnen dat Ilana Rooderkerk beroemd is geworden door haar rol in Met Het Oog Op Onderweg Naar Morgen, maar dat is niet waar, ze is beroemd geworden omdat ze critici van de NPO vergelijkt met Poetin. Zin om boeken te verbranden nu.
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Van kleedkamer, tot studentenkamer tot Tweede Kamer. Trek het je aan. Het begint bij jou. 70 procent van mannen vindt dat er bij "grappen over vrouwen" vaker wat gezegd moet worden, maar waarom doen we het niet?

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— Laurens Dassen (@laurensdassen.voltnederland.org) 15 september 2026 om 07:00

Laurens Dassen, leider van de meest overbodige partij van Nederland, heeft weer eens een mening waar iedereen het mee eens is en gebruikt Prinsjesdag om dat te laten zien. Je mag vrouwen niet uitschelden! Doe je mee de nacht opeisen in Delft, Lau?

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